The China Railway Museum is a Chinese museum preserving locomotives built in the People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

 since 1949. The museum offers a total exhibition space of 16500m² and 8 exhibition tracks.

The museum is located in Chaoyang District

Chaoyang District, Beijing

Chaoyang District is a district of Beijing, China.Chaoyang is home to the majority of Beijing's many foreign embassies, the well-known Sanlitun bar street, as well as Beijing's growing CBD. The Olympic Park, built for the 2008 Summer Olympics, is also in Chaoyang...

 of Beijing

Beijing

Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

 City, some 15 km northeast of downtown Beijing.

The China Railway Museum is not to be confused with the Beijing Railway Museum , which was opened in 2008 in the former Zhengyangmen East Railway Station of the Jingfeng Railway , just southeast of the Tian'anmen Square.

External links

• http://home.c2i.net/schaefer/railwaymuseum/index.html (About)